Policy

Nibbles: Citrus in Italy, Banana genebank, Post-2015, Wheat Yield Partnership, Kenyan seed company, UC Davis symposium, Dingo genetics

The history of citrus in Italy.
The Independent visits the global banana genebank and still doesn’t figure out that there are no seeds there.
Rome-based UN food agencies come up with post-2015 food security and nutrition targets. Not many people hurt.
The wheat people have the answer.
Going where no seed company has gone before.
UC Davis Plant Breeding symposium to feature CIP genebank stalwart.
The dingo is different.

Some fabulous photos of maize diversity from CIMMYT. (IRRI says, I see your diverse maize, and raise you diverse rice.)
Hope neither goes the way of that of some Andean roots and tubers in Bolivia. Or fruits in Central Asia. Though neither is doing terribly, in truth.
And too bad you can’t monitor that the way you can forests. Or land use in general for that matter.
World Agroforestry Centre calls for more, er, agroforestry. Will Defra listen?
Maybe it’s too busy consulting on the Nagoya Protocol. Wonder how good that will be for agroforestry.
I don’t care what anyone says, I like microwaves.
Wait, we missed Hug a Taxonomist Day?
And Persian New Year?
De Schutter’s final report. Main message not lost on the Pacific island countries.

People are ready with their reactions to the Great EU Seed Law Thing.
Bananas seem ready once again for their decadal extinction story.
Those nice people saving crop wild relatives are ready with a new Twitter account to follow.
The wheat diversity of Nepal will soon be ready for science.
And The Boston Globe is ready with its own story about seed libraries.